Dragon quickstep

[Corwin]

If she hadn't heard anything while listening at the door, Seira opens it!

Perception 10 for 120

[Anastasia]

The door opens. This room is empty - old and hot, forgotten. The only objects of note is a bookshelf in a corner, half turned away, with several books still on it. There's some ancient rubble on the floor, but nothing interesting on a glance. There's a stairway in the corner going further down.

[Corwin]

Seira clears the rubble telekinetically to the empty sides of the room, curious to see whether another ancient seal is present on the floor here, by chance. She also checks the titles of the books remaining here to get a better picture of what this room was for.

Of course, if there's magic, I'd also like to know this. 10 for 120 on Arcana/Spellcraft.

[Anastasia]

You check the floor carefully. A few hints of what might be runes and the like, but it's too degraded to tell much.

The books are ancient and written in Draconic. Journals, though they look about to fall apart with a touch.

[Corwin]

Amanuensis can copy books, so it is child's play to draw a much more powerful version of it that works sans touch and then on several books at once!

[Anastasia]

Easily enough done. You now have copies of the books.

[Corwin]

Seira places them away before heading down the stairway. Floating down it, really, to avoid stepping on it.

[Anastasia]

The others follow, quiet as can be. The stairway leads to...bones. A vast boneyard. Dragon skeletons from wyrmlings to vast dragons all lie here. Hundreds of them on a guess, ancient dragons long forgotten.

[Corwin]

I expected an intermediary stage between a hatchery and a graveyard, Seira admits.

I don't suppose my knowledge can give a hint for what this whole thing is about? I do have the Dragon, Fire, Knowledge and Time domains.

[Anastasia]

Near as you can tell, it feels like a dragon breeding ground, but you're right. The graveyard and the hatchery should not be so close together. Something's wrong about this, unless...

Dragons aren't immune to undeath.

However, dragons aren't always easy to turn into undead. It can be challenging, and death and life have to be carefully maintained. Mingled almost, or a powerful undead used to override that.

It fits and it feels right. Imix wasn't aiming for live dragons, he was aiming for undead dragons.

[Corwin]

Yep, it's necromancy, Seira relays. I was going to leave it alone as a graveyard, but if the goal is to defile these dragons we're taking the bones along and then giving them a proper burial at the Cauldron.

Good thing they finished with the portable hole above, since it means they can use it here!

[Anastasia]

Good work, then, Seira.

As you begin to do that, you see it. A soul that stirs amid the bones, awoken. A spirit, long lingering in this place and asleep within them, slowly emerges.

[Corwin]

Hello, Seira greets the spirit. I'm Seira. Who might you be?

[Anastasia]

A soft whisper from it into your own mind, 'I...do not remember. It has been so long. I'm so very tired. Master Imix, may I finally rest?'

[Corwin]

Rest, Seira bids the spirit.